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White Plains Linen charged with
illegal chlorine discharge into the Hudson River
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By Mary Dempsey and Anna Lillian Moser
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PEEKSKILL – White Plains Linen was charged Tuesday, June 23, with illegally discharging chlorine into a storm drain that feeds into the Hudson River.
The company, formally known as Highland Light Steam Laundry Inc., located at 4 John Walsh Blvd., was charged with illegal discharge into the waters of the state and point source discharge without a permit, both misdemeanors, by the state Department of Public Safety’s Environment Security Unit.
The Environmental Security Unit began its investigation recently when chlorine was detected entering the county’s Peekskill Waste Water Treatment Plant through the local sewer system. Businesses that use chlorine are required under their state and county permits to use technology that removes chlorine from wastewater before it is discharged.
A follow-up inspection was conducted of sewer lines and storm drains in the area, including outside White Plains Linen. While chlorine was not found in the sewer lines on that occasion, investigators discovered dirty, soapy water was being discharged into a storm drain from a pipe connected to White Plains Linen. Samples were collected and tested and high levels of chlorine were found. The summonses issued to the company are answerable in Peekskill City Court on July 16.
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